I'm eating as I blog down this entry so please forgive me if I digress and start talking about my yummy food, which is actually rice that I bought back earlier on from kopitiam. Anyway, that is not what I came online to blog about. What I do want to blog about is how I spent my day today and all the fun that I had!

I was talking with Emileen online, earlier in the day when out of the blue, she suggested catching a movie. At first I was reluctant since weekend movie tickets are priced at an exorbitant, $9.50 per ticket! However, I agreed to watch the movie because it's been a decade since I last caught a movie and I don't see another chance coming by in the near future.

I met Emileen for lunch but before we went for lunch, we had to go collect our tickets from the counter since Emileen had booked our tickets online. When we got to the counter, there was a massive, I mean a really really really long queue! Okie, maybe I am exaggerating too much but there was a considerable amount of people in the queue. Later, we learned that the people in the queue was getting a refund since their movie, "Harry Potter goblet of fire" was interrupted halfway due to a fault in the projector or something like that, according to one of the gentleman who was also in the queue.

When we collected our tickets, we proceeded to eat at the food court. According to Emileen, Marina shopping center has under gone a facelift, in other words, it is newly renovated. It's not like I know the difference since I never knew how it looked before the renovations but the shopping center was quite vibrant with all it's smaller side shops.

I AM..

not gay!not gay!not gay!                    not gay!                not gay!                    not gay!
not gay!not gay!not gay!                    not gay!                  not gay!                 not gay!
not gay!                                        not gay!not gay!              not gay!           not gay! 
not gay!                                      not gay!   not gay!                 not gay!   not gay!
not gay!                                   not gay!         not gay!                not gay!not gay!
not gay!                                   not gay!         not gay!                     not gay!
not gay!                                   not gay!         not gay!                     not gay!
not gay!                                   not gay!         not gay!                     not gay!
not gay!                                   not gay!         not gay!                     not gay!
not gay!        not gay!            not gay!not gay!not gay!                   not gay!
not gay!             not gay!       not gay!not gay!not gay!                   not gay!
not gay!             not gay!        not gay!           not gay!                    not gay!
not gay!not gay!not gay!        not gay!           not gay!                    not gay! 
not gay!not gay!not gay!        not gay!           not gay!                    not gay!      

I thought I should pen this down since I was really amazed by the awesome-ness of this short, fact findings or rather the awe of the man you call GOD! This was what capt. Ian shared with us. Okie so listen up..

What is the biggest animal? The big blue whale of course. The big blue whale's tail flipper alone can accomodate the size of a whole, fully grown elephant!

And if you thought the big blue whale was big..

If you squeezed many big blue whales into a "jar", it would take millions of those "jars" of big blue whales to amount it up to Mount Everest!

And if you thought that Mount Everest was big..

Mount Everest, is only a tiny spec when compared to the whole earth!

And if you thought that the earth was big..

I don't know what I managed to paint in your mind with that title but what i'm refering to is my new television set! It's not a brand new television but I swapped my previous television set for this one, hence a "new" set. This "new" set is a Goliath compared to the previous one. It is almost as big as the cupboard that it resides on! I used to be able to see the entire screen's picture with the older one but now, I have to literally look around the screen to catch the whole picture.

I will be awaiting the weekly EPL soccer highlights!

Finally, the weekend is here! The first week of school has just passed and that one week felt like a month! It's only the first week of school and I can already feel the pressure of work and stress piling up. School ssignments, online assesments, christmas musical rehearsals, driving practicals and a whole lot more, means I will be having a back to back schedule right up till next year.

S.T.R.E.S.S!

What have I got myself into!?



   

First of all, a big shout out to all of Joel's faithful blog readers or blogders as Xiaxue would say. I really have to commend all of you for staying with me even if it meant having to check back and realising that the blog had not been updated. Yes! I am back to blogging again! *loud cheers*

To cut the long story short, my accumulated blog entries for last month was few and far between and the reason for that was because all I did for my month long holiday was to take up driving practical lessons at SSDC (Singapore Safety Driving Center) and that was pretty much all I did throughout the entire month, last month. Therefore, I did not see the purpose of you coming here to read about an entire month's worth of driving blog entries.

Anyway, I decided to start blogging as regularly (I hope) as I can to maintain readership. HAH. I do recall making a hoo-rah about having a fan base for this blog and what not. To see that happening, I suppose I have to BLOG in the first place! It would be like asking you to cheer for a team that does not even exist!
 
I titled this entry, "The first of the last". An oxymoron to kick of my new semester. Today was the start, the first day of a new semester for me and sadly, it will be my last as a poly student.

I will be graduating from poly in 6 months! 

It is proven and tested! Time flys..even when you're not having fun. HAH. Alright, who am I to kid. Poly life has been an outstanding, totally, out of this world, enriching, awesome, incredible, if not life changing experience!

It's funny how I used to think that I would find a girlfriend while I was in poly. Looks like that won't come to past. Anyway, Tammy was asking me why I never had a girlfriend before, while we were having supper with the rest. I always hate it when people ask me that kind of question because a long and weird silence would always follow after that. I don't know why but it happens all the time! For the record, I do not have a girlfriend or ever had a girlfriend. Don't ask me why because even I don't know why. HAH. However, one person knows why and that is God.

I can afford to stay up late tonight because lesson starts at 2pm tomorrow, which also means that it is a long day tomorrow, till 9.30pm at night.

Alright, I intend to kick of this semester with a good start to maintain the 5 A's I managed to sneak into the bag last semester. Well, I can start by doing some of my homework.

Check back soon for more updates! God loves you and so do I.     

I had to blog down my greatest feat concerning walking, ever! I never knew this pair of legs could carry me such a far distance until today. HAH. Today will be the day that I visited the most number of places and sites in and around town in the whole of my 19 years of existence. My awesome feat was not accomplished alone tho but with 2 other friends, Aaron and his sister, Audrey.

Since we are facilitators for the upcoming youth event held on Hari Raya, called "CHIONG AR!", we thought it would be much more helpful if we ourselves knew where the exact locations of the clues were. This event is an Amazing Race cum Extreme Gourmet kind of activity, planned for all the youths in Salvation Army.

Following the post, which I listed some of the beautiful people in SA, I decided to let you guys in on some of the guys in the entertainment industry whom I admire!



This is Daniel Wu. I liked him best in the movie, "New Police Story". Although, he played a bad guy in the movie, he had a playful vibe. He looked stunningly amazing with his mo-hawk hairdo and bad ass attitude.



Edison Chen. He just looks so good with that school boy look. You can rarely catch this guy smiling in any of his movies but he just lets his looks do the speaking. We all love him.



This guy needs no introduction. We've all seen him on tv dramas, shows and on MTV asia as a vj/dj. Uttsada Pinakul is a Thai who spent most of his younger days in the States. He really looks way younger than his actual age but we all can agree that he is one heart throbber.



This is Won Bin. He is a korean actor and has many successful movies under his belt. I first got to know through the korean war movie, "Taeguki" or brotherhood. I thought he was brilliant and the show was touching. He too, acted in the recent movie, "My Brother". Somehow, he always has a somewhat bad guy influence or attitude in his movies. He looks good when he is angry. HAH.

These are the 4 guys whom I like in the entertainment industry so far. Of course there are more but I can't think of their names off hand. HAH.

I'll be driving all week long!

I just came home from a short but strenuous physio session at the Alexandra hospital. I think my injured right leg has recuperated and gained back much of it's strength. However, it's still pretty weak since I have been depending on my left leg more since the injury. Although, I am right legged, my left leg is stronger!? I can lift 120kg weights with my left leg alone but I can only lift about 70kg, 80kg max with my right. Slowly but surely, i'm healing.

God knows how long I have not been blogging! HAH. Anyway, just for the record, i'm still alive and well although I think i've caught the flu bug. Darn stuffed up nose when I sleep, leaky and a tingling sore troat in the daytime. I hope that clears up fast since I can't get good sleep with just one nostril to breath with!

Since you guys are such eager beavers to know what i've been up to lately, I will list down all the important and not so important, eventful and the not so eventful, happening and the not so happening things (which sums up to EVERYTHING la), that I missed blogging for the past 2 weeks or so.

I shall start with the latest event (yesterday) and go back, further into the past from there.

October 17 2005, Monday
I had my second driving practical lesson today. In light that this is only my second lesson, I thought I did pretty well with the gear shifting coordination. It went smoothly and the car did not stall on me. I think i'm more confident of driving now. Although, it was only driving around the circut, first, going the left direction then the other, stopping for pedestrains (thank God I didn't run over any. HAH), stopping at the red lights, signalling and changing lanes. I also mastered the art of coming to a gradual halt.

Wednesday, I go out to the road! Refrain from driving around the vicinity of Ang Mo Kio from 10:30am - 12:15pm. HAH! Kidding. I'm not that bad a driver okie! It's just that it's only my third lesson and my first time driving on the freaking road with cars! So there might be a few hic-ups here and there.

I went for my army medical check-up at CMPB (Central Manpower Base). I went through all the stations where they did several tests and what not. I was classified under Pes A for 2 test but I am confirmed and graded provisionally as Pes B since of my partial colour blindness. HAH.

I still hope the officer post is still open to me. =P

October 16 2005, Sunday
A big congradulations to my cousin Janice for getting wed. We went for the wedding dinner at Hilton hotel. I saw Herman there too, not as an invited guest but as one of the waiters. He must be a higher ranking waiter since he wore a name tag. HAH. Anyway, three times, the waiters and waitresses dropped glassware on the floor! You know the sound of shattering glass as it hits the floor.

[pee-ee-iang] shrieking sound. Three times!

During the course of the dinner, my sister and I were planning our own wedding dinners and how they would turn out to be like. My sister said that I had to be the host of her wedding dinner, the entertainment of the dinner more like it. HAH.

Since there were 4 empty seats at our table because one of my uncle and his family could not turn up for the dinner, 2 other couples came to sit at our table. Later, we found out that 1 of the guys was the bridegroom's brother, his wife and his friends. We met them for the first time.